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Step Up Your Snacks!

For me, healthy summertime snacks are de rigueur, since I’m found in a bathing suit most weekends. That said, I always have on hand fresh fruit, great cheese and ready-to-munch vegetables – but putting them on a platter is uninspired. It’s old-school.

Instead, I like to create skewer snacks that not only look fabulous but taste great, too. Just [lightbox href=”http://youtu.be/X7w1KHKkRdk”]Click Here[/lightbox] to see how you can make simple and delicious fruit and veggie kabobs in minutes plus make great dips to go with them!

When I’m giving a party, I like displaying cut fruit in “natural” bowls. I’ll hollow-out a small watermelon half and fill it with cubes of watermelon and cut strawberries. In a hollowed-out pineapple, I’ll put pineapple cubes, chunks of papaya and banana slices, and in a hollowed-out cantaloupe half, I’ll place balls of cantaloupe (made by using a mini-ice cream scoop), grapes and blackberries. Of course, if you don’t have time to carve and cut fruit, pretty baskets and plates always look beautiful.